First Wave ~ Reader Friday

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First Wave; Deuteronomy 31:8

First Wave by Lisa Phillips is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: Tonight wasn’t the first night Dakota had spent alone in the woods. 

But first the photo and verse. I took this Tuesday evening when I left Pilates–the steeple just stood out against the dark clouds rolling in. And Deuteronomy 31:8 is one of my favorite Scripture verses!

Now for First Wave by Lisa Phillips. I’m catching up on Lisa’s books and this is the first book in the Northwest Counter-Terrorism Taskforce. I don’t know how I missed them when they first came out! Here’s the cover and back copy:

First Wave by Lisa PhillipsHomeland Security Agent Dakota Pierce is determined to solve every case, no matter what. When it becomes clear a backwoods militia is involved in the murder of a young woman, she can’t ignore her past any longer. But going back there is the last thing she wants.
Duty and history collide, and the explosion could destroy the life she forged out of the fire.

Rookie DEA Agent Josh Weber is looking for his neighbor’s missing granddaughter when he and his K-9 Neema meet Dakota and the Northwest Counter Terrorism Taskforce. To a guy trying to find the place he fits, this team is everything he’s been looking for.
If he can get them to ask him to stay.

My take:

Oh, wow! This was a page-turner from the get-go. Dakota Pierce is looking for home-grown terrorists, and Josh Weber is searching for his friend’s granddaughter when they run into each other, literally. She thinks he’s one of the terrorists and he’s just trying to help her out and almost gets killed for his effort. Definitely almost got arrested.

The chemistry between Dakota and Josh is great. Neither of them has the time or inclination for romance, so of course they’re going to fall in love. The tension between the two draws the reader in, but they come together to fight the terrorists. Josh is glad he is actually doing something besides filling out reports but working for Homeland Security might be more than he bargained for. Dakota’s past rears its ugly head, and she has to confront the evil she fled as a child.

This is a story readers of suspense will love. You purchase First Wave on Amazon or read it in KU.

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  4. Tim Johnson

    Pat, your photo begs the promise of the verse you chose to go with it. I like it.

    The first line of Steven James’ “Every Crooked Man” is
    “Have the nightmares been getting worse?” This is the last of the Patrick Bowers series. The series has been pretty tough to read at times, but Mr James writes very good, very powerful stories.

    I’m looking forward to your next book, Pat. Good cover.

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      Patricia Bradley

      Tim, I read Every Crooked Man when it came out. Steven James deals with some deep subjects. I’m glad you enjoyed my steeple and verse! There was just something about that steeple against the clouds that made me pull over and get out of my car to get that shot. 😉

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    2. Tim Johnson

      Do you ever read so many similar titles they tend to blur together? I thought so. When I quoted from the book I’m reading this morning, I said it was “Every Crooked Man”. Well, that was his book before this one, which is “Every Wicked Man”. I think I need a proof reader for my proof reader (me). 🙂

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  6. Barbara Diggs

    Love the steeple and the angle of the cross, a good reminder to look to where our help comes…the LORD.

    First Wave sounds like a delightful page-turner. Kind of contradicts itself, delightful, when someone is most likely getting killed. But, I do love those page-turners.

    I’m reading quite an intriguing book, Lady Jayne Disappears by Joanna Davisdon Politano. “Well, Miss Harcourt. Are you, or are you not, Nathaniel Droll?”

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  7. Edward Arrington

    I love the picture. A number of years ago, I briefly considered taking drives out into the countryside to look for old country churches and take pictures of them. I suppose if I had, I would have thousands of pictures by now of churches, steeples, etc. I reconsidered when I thought of the magnitude of such a project. I just stuck to lighthouses since there are fewer of those and the time spent is clearly limited by the amount of time we spend near major bodies of water. Churches should also be lighthouses, but sadly too many of lost their way and no longer function as such. That’s a great verse of Scripture.

    I read three of Lisa’s earlier books but somehow lost track of her. I need to find her again.

    I finally started the book from which I shared the first line last Friday, but it’s been a slow go due to lack of time. It sometimes gets difficult to make time for reading when preparing for and then starting a trip. I’m sharing the second line from Windswept Way by Irene Hannon, just in case the first line didn’t do the trick:

    Stomach churning, Ashley Scott braked as Windswept Way dead-ended at two open but imposing iron gates bookended by a tall, overgrown hedge. In the next sentences, she reads the no trespassing signs and then this line on the next page:

    Gasping, she mashed the brake to the floor again as a tall, muscular man emerged from behind the hedge, brandishing a chain saw and wearing a black, Covid-style mask that covered his nose and the bottom half of his face.

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      Patricia Bradley

      Ah, Edward…that’s the problem–finding time to read when in the midst of life. 🙂 If I only had a couple more hours in the day…I would probably promptly fill them. lol Those line from Irene Hannon’s book make me really want to read her book!

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  8. Tammy Griffin

    I love the verse and the steeple.
    You and Lisa Harris are two of my favorite authors. Your books are read and reread.
    Thanks for writing.

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  9. Melissa Pettersen

    This had been the worst few days of Haley Gordon’s life.—First Line of Loretta Eidson’s Blue Ridge Mountain Escape. It’s so good! I can’t wait to read First Wave. It sounds like my kinda book.

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      1. Melissa Pettersen

        You will love it! It’s intense. I am blessed to be on her launch team.

  10. Lisa Harness

    Blessed by the photo & verse. I love Lisa Phillips’ books. This series is on my TBR. I’m on her Last Chance County series.

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  11. Gloria A

    Great photo and verse. This book sounds like one I would enjoy.
    No matter how wonderful the vacation, there’s nothing better than getting home and sleeping in your own bed.
    And Then There Was You by Nancy Naigle

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  12. Natalya Lakhno

    Melissa quoted my first line LOL

    This had been the worst few days of Haley Gordon’s life.—Loretta Eidson’s Blue Ridge Mountain Escape.

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  16. Miss Mary

    Love this photo Pat and such a comforting verse! I haven’t read one of Lisa’s books lately but I need to remedy that. “Five minutes. Only five minutes stood between Peyton and sanity, and she didn’t know if she would make it.” Nerves of Steele by Susan Sleeman

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  17. Caryl Kane

    Lisa Phillips is a new-to-me author. Pat, Thank you for recommending First Wave.
    I just finished reading Poison Town by Creston Mapes.

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